othes than his small-breeches and stockings."

And here he came, directly for the tree. The two behind it let him
come "fair within shot." Then Caleb took the first fire upon him. But
the gun only flashed in the pan. He bade the Indian fire away, and
Alderman did so true to purpose; sent one musket bullet through King
Philip's heart, and another not above two inches from it. The gun had
been loaded with two balls.

King Philip "fell upon his face in the mud and the water, with his gun
under him." He was dead, at last, on the soil of his long-time home
land from which he had sallied to do battle in vain.

"By this time," reads the Captain Church story, "the enemy perceived
that they were waylaid on the east side of the swamp, and tacked short
about. One of the enemy, who seemed to be a great, surly old fellow,
hallooed with a loud voice, and often called out, 'I-oo-tash,
I-oo-tash.' Captain Church called to his Indian, Peter, and asked him
who that was that called so? He answered, that it was old Annawan,
Philip's great captain, calling on his soldiers to stand to it and
fight stoutly. Now the enemy finding that place of the swamp which was
not ambushed, many of them made their escape in the English tracks."

When the pursuit had quit, Captain Church let his men know that King
Philip had been killed, and they gave three cheers.

Then the captain ordered the body to be pulled out of the mud. So some
of the Indians "took hold of him by his stockings, and some by his
small breeches (being otherwise naked) and drew him through the mud to
the upland; and a doleful, great, naked, dirty beast he looked like,"
according to their opinion.

"Forasmuch as you have caused many an Englishman's body to be unburied,
and to rot above ground, not one of your bones shall be buried,"
pronounced Captain Church. And he ordered an old Indian, who acted as
executioner, to behead and quarter King Philip.

But before he struck with the hatchet, the old Indian also made a
little speech, to the body.

"You have been a very great man," he said, "and have made many a man
afraid of you; but so big as you are, I will now chop you up."

And so he did.

King Philip was known not only by his face, but by a mangled hand in
which a pistol had burst. His head and his crippled hand were awarded
to Alderman, who had betrayed him; Alderman was told to exhibit them
through New England, if he wished, as a traveling show. He gained many